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SoloSojourner
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Former Twitter user, deleted my account the day Elon’s acquisition was final. I retired in 2022 and began living my dream of traveling around the world 🌍. Knowing true freedom for the first time in my life. #Travel #Nature #Photography #Observations
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I respect Kristi too. ICE Barbie is inappropriate, which is why I call her Madam ICE.
February 12, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Instead, they’ll chalk it all up to ‘bad luck’ or ‘God’s will’ and keep stumbling forward, never realizing that good governance was the invisible scaffolding holding their lives together.

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February 12, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Turns out dismantling the federal government isn’t just stupid, it’s self-defeating. Luckily, the people who cheered it on are too stupid to notice what they’ve lost. They won’t connect the dots between their crumbling roads, gutted schools, and vanishing safety nets.

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February 12, 2026 at 9:50 PM
If Mike Lee’s questions aren’t stupid, then why do people walk away dumber for having read them?
February 12, 2026 at 9:42 PM
150 charged cases: many were dismissed, some ended in acquittals, and most of the convictions were misdemeanors resolved with probation or fines rather than incarceration. Texas AG didn’t track outcome data, so it must not have been favorable to their narrative.
February 12, 2026 at 9:26 PM
The arc of American history is long, but it bends, confusingly, towards Donald Trump being shot and killed for being a pedophile by a guy who voted for him to stop the pedophiles and who is himself a pedophile.
February 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Please explain how you plan to ‘reform’ an agency staffed with white nationalists, pardoned insurrectionists, and members of illegal militia groups. Your talk of ‘real reforms’ must include ‘mass terminations,’ or you risk looking complicit at worst and buffoonish at best.

#AbolishICE #DefundDHS
February 12, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Mueller, She Wrote is wrong again. DHS could continue operating with OBBBA funds through FY2029, even if Congress fails to pass new budget bills in the interim as long as it doesn’t exceed current statutory limits.

DHS operates on a $3 billion annual budget and has $38 billion to spend this year.
NEW: Senate Democrats REJECT funding for DHS, which will lead to shutdown of the agency. Keep in mind, ICE and CBP are still funded by supplemental money in the BBB, but it's harder to spend and will deplete those funds. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Senate Democrats Block DHS Measure as Funding Deadline Approaches
Lawmakers say they remain far apart on deal on Homeland Security to put new restrictions on immigration enforcement
www.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Mueller, She Wrote is wrong again. DHS could continue operating with OBBBA funds through FY2029, even if Congress fails to pass new budget bills in the interim as long as it doesn’t exceed current statutory limits.

DHS operates on a $3 billion annual budget and has $38 billion to spend this year.
February 12, 2026 at 7:52 PM
By the way, do we have any details on the 1,800 detainees that were housed at Alligator Alcatraz when it closed? 1,800 people whose whereabouts are unknown is a lot of missing human beings.
February 12, 2026 at 7:15 PM
We definetly want to celebrate one less potential ICE detention center being opened. 🥳

Have any of the 200 detention centers currently housing immigrants been closed? I haven’t seen any reporting on closures since Alligator Alcatraz. 75K detainees represent a tremendous amount of ongoing suffering.
February 12, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Yes, and at least 72% of prosecutions targeted Black and Latinx individuals, and nearly half of those cases involved Black and Latinx women. Additionally, 86% of prosecutions occurred in counties with majority non-white or Latinx populations, according to the ACLU or Texas.
February 12, 2026 at 6:42 PM
“Between 2004 and 2021, 72% of all election prosecutions undertaken by the Texas Attorney General involved mail ballot fraud.”

Translation: From 2004 to 2021, the Texas Attorney General averaged six mail ballot fraud prosecutions per year.

Disingenuous judges should be removed from the bench.
February 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM
The Democrats currently in power are feckless has-beens, complicit in the undermining of democracy and the Republic. We couldn’t have gotten to where we are today without their help. That’s why we need change from top to bottom. Primary Schumer and Jeffries, and elect #LeadersWeDeserve.

#Vote2026
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The U.S. has been racist since 1619, and you’re correct #FactsMatter.
February 12, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Honestly, the last thing we need right now is more fiction dressed up as fact. Save the parables for Sunday, what we’re desperate for is evidence, accountability, and a reality check. Less pulpits spinning stories, more receipts showing the truth.

#FactsMatter #FaithVsFiction
February 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Mark, your speculation is ten times more valuable than the average person’s educated guess.
February 12, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Reason without substances is like a flame without fuel, bright for a moment, then gone.
February 12, 2026 at 4:11 PM
But they weren’t fired for being vocal. My thesis not only disagrees with your opinion, but also argues that your attempt to conflate being a member of a marginalized community with being vocal is dangerous in any conversation regarding human rights.
February 12, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I would argue that who DOGE cut where people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community and women. If you have any data or reporting to support your opinion that ‘vocal likely whistleblowers’ were targeted, I am open to reading it.

Please find the support for my thesis below:

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February 12, 2026 at 3:36 PM
I’m going to step back from this debate. We started out questioning the BLS Jobs Report data. We have devolved into a circular discussion without any evidence to support opinions. I stand by my original message. We can trust the Jobs Report until we hear otherwise from BLS career staff. Be well.
February 12, 2026 at 3:27 PM
fail to acknowledge what career employees have done to expose corruption and lawlessness of leadership appointees.

It’s not accurate to say professionals were simply ‘quiet.’ You haven’t pointed to a specific case where career staff ignored corruption rather than resisting and exposing it?

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February 12, 2026 at 2:36 PM